The emotional era:Are technologies changing how we feel?

If we consider recent findings on the prevalence of online hate speech, cyber crime and social media addiction, we could be forgiven for wondering, does the internet bring out the worst in people?

Maybe that’s not what we should be asking.

Computer-mediated communication facilitates alternative power relations and social conventions, normalising new... See more

“The digital architecture of social media privileges the expression of emotions. It privileges the audiovisual over the written, the controversial over the moderate. All of this makes us more emotional.”